Posts Tagged ‘business’

Pattern-based visual decision making

Friday, November 13th, 2009

I think that Edison said: innovation is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

As over the next two years it is currently planned that I will not have time to do my usual consulting activities, beside for some activity online, mainly pro bono, I started over the last few weeks to share some material that I had planned to use in my services or with my partners.

This short preamble will be in each article.

If you manage to turn something to a practical use- good luck: you will have to do the 99% missing!

And now, we can move to today’s article.

XXI century managers who started using mobiles over the last few years, and are now just kids, will probably better equipped to interact with a visual approach.

Real-life enterprise 2.0: startup support

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

This short article is about making “Enterprise 2.0″ a real-life experience.

To simplify: taking what you do now, and move it online, with benefits, not costs.

But before discussing the detailed approach, a short description of how I came to develop this approach.

(PS If you copy-and-paste the text of this article, except the “post-scriptum”… it is exactly 1000 words- I am trying to reduce my writings to 2-minutes bites :D )

Business planning from scratch: a case study

Monday, July 20th, 2009

As promised in “Sharing intellectual property“, this is a the first publication.

This example is not a theoretical example: it is material from a real project- but, of course, some information is not available online.

I used to share this information with specific startups, but the interesting part is not producing the final spreadsheets (what I call “number crunching”).

It is the process that takes you from the idea up to having a completed business plan. And you will find here both the process the material to apply it to your own new activity.

Online identity and you: a Facebook experiment

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Effective from today, you can have your own personal address on Facebook.

Like: www.facebook.com/robertolofaro

And the new “personal address” of Facebook could allow to do a social experiment.

On how to separate public and private life while being online

Enjoy!

XXI Century libraries and search engines

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

XXI century encyclopedias and knowledge processing.

How Google, WolframAlpha, Wikipedia, and Eurostat process a query.

Or: models of knowledge processing and distribution.

Searching & Machine intelligence & Decisions

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

How the addition of WolframAlpha as a search engine could complement Google services to create a new market.

Services? Access and structure knowledge. And a new form of knowledge management.

Memory & strategy

Friday, April 17th, 2009

On the relationship between memory, strategy, intelligence- and how learning has to be adapted to what you already know.